Author: Dr. Ingrid Kerkhoff

In 2018 Northern Irish author Anna Burns won the UK’s prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction. The Man Booker Prize is open to any novel published in Britain and written in English. Burns is the first Northern Irish author...

The title refers to a kind of twilight: the dimmed warlight in the wake of the blitz. Warlight was the official name given to light allowed for emergency traffic during blackout hours in Blitz-ridden London in 1945. From the...

The title page: A twin alligator whose heads interlock. Behind it, transparent, the title. Jennifer Clement’s passion is poetry: “It was my challenge to talk about weapons with poetry” she once told in an interview, what essentially means that...

The concept of a “United Ireland” is the proposition that the whole of Ireland should be a single sovereign state. Since the Brexit vote the likelihood of a United Ireland has increased. The dream of a reunification of Ireland...

The President Is Missing was the book event of 2018. The political thriller, officially written by Bill Clinton and James Patterson, is about a gigantic-scale threat that troubles not only the White House and Wall Street but all of...